Countries that hosted recent climate meetings worry banks are backing away from promises to help poor nations fight global warming. The Trump administration cut foreign aid and told American lenders like the World Bank to stop focusing on climate money. Poor countries need $1.3 trillion each year through 2035 to switch to clean energy and protect themselves from extreme weather. Rich nations only agreed to provide $300 billion annually, which experts say falls far short of what developing countries actually need.
Azerbaijan and Brazil started a program to fill the funding gap but only two development banks have shown interest. Officials from Azerbaijan visited Washington hoping to find the same support they saw before but discovered...
Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Rome on Friday. They discussed a major plan to help African countries grow their economies and reduce illegal migration to Europe. Meloni wants to spend 5.5 billion euros across 14 African nations like Ethiopia and Senegal. The money will support different industries from energy to healthcare. She hopes this will stop young Africans from paying criminals to make dangerous trips across the sea.
The plan connects with the EU's Global Gateway program that competes with China's influence across Africa. Von der Leyen said Africa needs to keep its talented people and workers at home. Both leaders announced 1.2 billion euros for specific...
Ghana keeps launching new farming programs every few years with fancy names and big promises. Leaders create slogans and hold ceremonies but farms still struggle with basic needs like fertilizer and support staff. Each new government throws out the previous plans and starts over from scratch.
Political changes mess up farming progress across the country. New leaders rename programs or cut funding for projects that were already working. Extension officers lose direction and donor partners become worried about supporting unstable programs. Important information gets lost when teams change.
Storage buildings and grain silos sit empty because nobody follows through after elections. Many were built decades ago but new governments ignore...
Rwanda police arrested a major opponent of President Paul Kagame on Friday. Victoire Ingabire faced questioning about nine people accused of learning ways to remove the government without violence. The Rwanda Investigation Bureau charged her with forming criminal groups and turning citizens against leaders. Officials want to try her alongside the other defendants already facing court proceedings. They did not say when formal charges might happen.
Ingabire denied connections to the accusations during Thursday court hearings. Her political party DALFA-Umurinzi never organized or paid for such training sessions according to her testimony. She claimed prosecutors tried linking separate events that had nothing to do with each other. Some...
Julie ran away from Uganda after her family burned down her house because she was transgender. Her brothers made angry villagers attack her many times before the fire happened in 2018. She escaped through the back door and made it to Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp where other LGBTQ people lived together.
Seven years later Julie still waits for Kenya to approve her asylum request. Uganda made things worse when it passed harsh laws against gay people with life prison sentences or even death penalties. Another transgender woman named Zuri also fled Uganda after attackers nearly killed her at home.
Kenya used to help LGBTQ refugees but things changed when the government took over from the United Nations. Kenyan officials stopped giving...
Workers in Chad make special charcoal from farm waste to help save the country's disappearing forests. The African nation has lost over 90 percent of its trees since the 1970s because of climate change and people cutting wood for cooking. This green charcoal comes from leftover plant materials like millet stalks and palm leaves instead of chopped trees.
The new fuel burns cleaner than regular charcoal and lasts three times longer. One kilogram of green charcoal saves six kilograms of wood from being cut down. Workers mix burned plant waste with gum and clay to make black chunks that look like normal charcoal.
Chad faces extra pressure from 800,000 refugees who fled violence in Sudan since 2023. These newcomers need fuel for cooking...
The International Organization for Migration stopped helping thousands of displaced people travel within South Sudan because they ran out of money. The group needs 6.5 million dollars right away to restart transport services for refugees and returnees fleeing violence from neighboring Sudan. People cross dangerous borders and need safe rides to reach family members or find shelter inside South Sudan.
The organization cut back transport help starting June 1st after funds dried up. Only one bus and one truck leave daily from the Joda border crossing to Renk, which cannot handle the huge number of people arriving. The group used boats, buses and planes to move people before the money problems started.
Nearly 1.2 million people entered...
The European Union decided to give 10 million euros to help people who had to leave their homes in Central Sahel. These displaced families are now living in four coastal countries called Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Togo. The money will support both the refugees and the communities that welcome them.
Four major organizations will work together on this project called Unite. The International Organization for Migration, UN Refugee Agency, UNICEF, and World Food Programme will spend two years helping these communities. They want to make both groups stronger and more able to handle future problems.
Around 160,000 refugees and asylum seekers live in the northern parts of these four countries. Most of them came from Burkina Faso because...
Patrick Yaw Boamah wants his New Patriotic Party to fix its problems before the next elections. The Okaikwei Central lawmaker posted on X Thursday evening about making the party stronger and better organized. He thinks the NPP needs serious changes to win back power from voters who rejected them last time. Boamah believes the party must become disciplined and united to produce a real president instead of just another candidate. His message comes as party members argue about what went wrong during their 2024 defeat.
Several big names plan to compete for party leadership when primaries happen on January 31, 2026. Mahamudu Bawumia leads the list of people who want to run the party into the 2028 general elections. Kennedy Agyapong and...
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